One hot summer evening while Grandma and the aunts were up at the barn stringing ‘baccer, Tana decided to play a practical joke on them. She smeared ketchup all over my little six-year-old body and carried me in her arms up to the barn, screaming that I’d been hurt. The aunts ca...
Take out your ‘Some Day List’ and plan the next one. Jump higher even if it’s just on a trampoline. Or go sky diving – at least in the indoor one. Enjoy the ride. What are you doing today? What are you encouraging others to do?
Don’t get me wrong – the online news feed is like a fire hose of pure crazy, and it feels good to turn it off every once in a while and stick my head in the sand and pretend life is 100% normal. In which case, I take my advice from a dog. ** In that same vein, it di...
3D landscape of the JSA found in the museum – our buses were parked directly outside of the Freedom House which we walked through to get to the three Blue houses; we entered the middle blue house before coming back out and through the main building and back to the buses At last, we...
There’s a plant nursery visible from my backyard (if on a ladder or the trampoline.) A few weeks ago, when we were putting together a shed (and wasn’t that a shipping tale from hell), I noticed that the very large parking lot was so full that they had employees out in reflective...
5 years ago: I was still living in Cleveland, and adjusting to a 40-hour workweek again after having to put my dad into a nursing home in the wake of a broken hip and repeated hospitalizations. My marriage was at an end and I'd already made up my mind that I wanted to move to ...